Anniston Man arrested on sodomy charges

A 33 year old Anniston man is facing first degree sodomy charges after being accused of sexually abusing his 5-year-old.  The man  was arrested on an outstanding warrant at a location on West 11^th street by Anniston police.  The man also was charged with first-degree sexual abuse in February, according to a warrant for his arrest. He was arrested on that charge Feb. 1 and released from the Anniston City Jail on a $15,000 bond Feb. 2, according to state court records.  Police say the abuse had taken place in a hotel room in Indiana, in a friend’s Oxford home, and in a foreign country, where the suspect had been serving as a missionary. It lasted from June 2013 to January, according to a warrant for the suspect’s arrest.  The suspect was arrested after he told a friend with whom he had been staying that he had been molesting his daughter, who is now 6. The friend told another person about the abuse and that person reported the suspect to Anniston police.